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... reader ; the tongue halts at a phrase , or stumbles over a line ; a colour adjective appeals or repels according to the reader's own taste ; and so on . By the time the first reading is complete , these transitory , and often half ...
... reader ; the tongue halts at a phrase , or stumbles over a line ; a colour adjective appeals or repels according to the reader's own taste ; and so on . By the time the first reading is complete , these transitory , and often half ...
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... reader will commit one of two faults when criticizing this poem . Either he will allow his enjoyment of the earlier ... reader the matter of a poem , and the poet's attitude to it ; second , to give the reader clearly and unequivocally ...
... reader will commit one of two faults when criticizing this poem . Either he will allow his enjoyment of the earlier ... reader the matter of a poem , and the poet's attitude to it ; second , to give the reader clearly and unequivocally ...
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... reader thoughts and emotions as nearly as possible identical with those that filled the poet's mind as he wrote . They are the symbols of things and ideas , and the reader understands the mind of the poet , only by allowing those ...
... reader thoughts and emotions as nearly as possible identical with those that filled the poet's mind as he wrote . They are the symbols of things and ideas , and the reader understands the mind of the poet , only by allowing those ...
Contents
MEANING AND INTENTION II | 11 |
FINAL JUDGEMENT | 120 |
A PIECE OF CRITICISM | 132 |
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A. E. Housman accent adjectives appeal beauty blank verse blow Bonny Dundee brave CHAPTER clear Coleridge colour couplet Danny Deever dark death delight detail diction doth duple Echoing Green emotions English example expression eyes final judgement flowers following passages free verse give green hand hath heart heaven iambic pentameters imagery images imagination judge Keats leaves light look Lyrical melody metre metrical Milton mind modern moon mountains nature neo-Classical never night o'er Paradise Lost pattern Petrarcan pleasure poem poet poet's attitude poet's purpose prosody reader rest rhythmic rime-scheme rimes Romantics round scansion sense sestet Shakespeare Shakespearian silver sing skies song sonnet soul sound Spring sprung rhythm stanzas statement stress style sweet syllables system of scansion T. S. Eliot thee theme things thou thought truth versification whole wind Winter's Tale words Wordsworth writing دو